EU Directive Encouraging Mediation

European Union Directive 2008/52/EC (21st May 2008) sets out to encourage mediation in a number of ways:-

* Article 6 requires pan-Europe enforceability of mediated settlements.

* Article 7 gives protection to mediators against being forced by a court to break confidentiality.

* Article 8 seeks to require States to impose a freeze during a mediation on any time limits within which court action would otherwise have to be issued.

* Article 9 requires States to encourage the publishing on the Internet of information on how to contact mediators and mediation services.

Don't expect any immediate impact, though. Members States have until 2011 to comply.

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